“He tried the same with me driv­ing BMW as I walked to­wards the mall en­trance! He went hun­gry.”

MICHAEL PHILLIPS

“I told one of these guys that I was Bri­tish CID work­ing with the Dubai po­lice to stamp out coun­ter­feit goods in the UAE. He dis­ap­peared rather quickly.”

SAM WESTHEAD

“Ran into this clown my­self. The mocked up Ar­mani busi­ness card with a hot­mail ad­dress was odd, I imag­ined if you’re go­ing to fib you might as well go all out.”

AN­DREW PARKER

“They al­ways use the same tac­tics but again you have to be des­per­ate enough to buy suits from the streets. No mat­ter how much a sales per­son is con­vinc­ing, when you de­cide to look for cheap suits from strange hawk­ers in­stead of go­ing to buy them from well know cloth bou­tiques, you will al­ways be a vic­tim.”